@RecDiffs@hotdogsladies@siracusa Many academics like myself are in no way computer scientists but have students (and colleagues haha) who really need to understand the basics of the command line, the shell, etc, in order to do the mechanics of their work in a non-magical-thinking way. And so we end up teaching courses like this: https://mptc.io
This stuff—understandably, but sadly—rarely gets taught to people, even though in the world of technical computing, Unix still rules all.
@cboettig@kjhealy It is difficult, but possible, to communicate the best of both worlds together.
E.g.,
[R] > system("ls")
is my friend.
For example, I show my students how to do calls from external tools within R. Of course, it is also possible.
And the misunderstanding about R scripts and RStudio can only be confirmed. People think #RStudio is #rstats. Which, of course, is not quite right. When I show the students #RKWard, they always ask if the R/Rmd scripts run there too. 🙃
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Para los que tengáis problemas ejecutando RStudio desde Ubuntu 24.04 probad a ejecutar esto desde un terminal:
sudo chmod 4755 /usr/lib/rstudio/chrome-sandbox
Phew, had a really productive but exhausting #Rstats day today. It's a report that works with #quarto and #knitr and I created something like a "create_graph()" function, because the graphs a very similar and it saves a lot of copy paste.
I really want to make one thing clear: Without #Rstudio and #ggplot and #dplyr and all things #R I could not do my job. Neither Excel, nor Stata, nor SPSS could help in that specific way. I wouldn't get anything of the non-data tasks done...
You asked, and @thomas_mock answered -- GitHub Copilot integration with RStudio is coming!
Give RStudio some context (be simple and specific) about your analysis in a comment. You get a ghost text suggestion that you can instantly accept to add that code to your script.
With more context and lines of code, you'll start getting better completions, even in the line you're typing.
Available as a preview feature in the 2023.09 build! (Copilot subscription required.) #PositConf2023#rstudio
In my latest blog post about zsh I erroneously stated that while VS Code supports changes to the terminal, RStudio doesn't.
That's a load of horse shit. Of course it supports it, and it takes all of 3 clicks to make zsh the default terminal, including with your Oh My Zsh setup etc.
Posit eliminates the role of “Open Source Program Director” and lays off another employee. Seems like an important role and sounds like a role vital to steering their interests in open source software development. You know, just the mission of what was once Rstudio.
I acknowledge that restructuring may be more complicated than how I’m making it out to be, but surely they have considered the optics of this?
Is there a way to quickly jump between a location in a notebook in the viewer and the equivalent location in the Rmd source in RStudio? Similar to the < and > buttons in Overleaf that jump you to the correct portion of the latex source to/from the PDF output? I can't find any keypresses or menu items to do this. For big notebooks this would be super handy. #rstudio
So over the past year I have been using #vscode for my #rstats and #python work. my workplace is trying to move to a unified IDE, and vscode allows remote access and WSL integration for free. However, so far it fails to spark joy in me like #RStudio (despite lack of #vim mode) and #PyCharm do. Everything feels clunky, and subpar. The "intelligent" and linting things are also quite broken in R... Has there been extensions that fundamentally change the vscode experience that I should be trying?
I've noticed that when you copy text out of #RStudio on a Mac, all the new lines are instead carriage return characters.
Is this deliberate? If so, why??
@gws do you know who at Posit might know about this?
🦴 Version control is great, but sometimes it can trip you up! In this post I recount my rather stupid mistake of using when I shouldn't have, and how I got out of it. ---
🧏 People who code have a tendency to spend a lot of time in various IDEs (Integrated Development Environments). They can be as simple as a text editor or as complex as a full-blown development environment. In this post, I'll go through my two go-to IDE's, RStudio and VScode, and why I switch between them rather than sticking to a single one. ---
People who understand R and RStudio, please help me out.
I've been asked to use it for a class that is neither a stats nor an IT unit, so none of us are experienced with the tech.
Here's the issue:
I open RStudio. It shows me a mostly blank screen with the usual row of menus along the top plus the RStudio logo and name. Each menu displays (empty). In a separate window it opens the RStudio logo only.
I can't work out how to make it display menus and the rest of the UI.
It was working normally yesterday.
I have tried turning all aspects of the situation off and on again. I haven't tried downloading RStudio again.
Edit: possibly relevant, it's running on a basic laptop that's over 10yo.
The {mrup} #rstats 📦 is an “RStudio addin for searching for all local projects and editing the most recently used project list.
“Easily open any previous project. Add projects to, or remove projects from, the recent project drop-down menu.” By John Wilson, teaching fellow at Edinburgh University https://github.com/jmcvw/mrup #RStudio@rstats